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A cast member from BBC's hit has opened up about reaching out to a co-star after watching one episode air.

The latest series of the show has included priest Lisa Coupland, 62, among the players. Fans saw her 'murdered' at the hands of original Traitor Minah Shannon, 29, and new recruit Charlotte Berman, 32, on Friday night's episode.

She spoke to this week about her experience on the show and revealed that she reached out to Minah after watching Charlotte's recruitment air. She spoke about it whilst discussing the original Traitor's strategy on the show.

Sharing her thoughts on Minah's strategy, she told us: "She has been so clever. I mean, she has played the game so well. [She's] not stood out too much and she's engaged but not engaged too much." Lisa suggested that Linda Rands, 70, who had been a Traitor, giving Minah her "blessing" to vote her out "helped". She said: "It was not obvious that [Minah] was probably a Traitor voting out another Traitor."

She continued: "She's been very astute and very wise in her decisions about who to kill, when and why, so that it's not pointing anything directly at her." She added: "I'm not sure that appointing Charlotte was her wisest move though."

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Charlotte has teased in confessionals on the show that she's prepared to betray Minah. Asked if that's why she's unsure of the recruitment, Lisa agreed. She said: "It goes back to my initial thing that Charlotte would make a brilliant Traitor.

"[And] because she's only just come in she hasn't had that opportunity to build that relationship that Minah had with Linda, so she doesn't really get a feel of how the Traitors were before. So I think she's kind of being a little bit on the defensive thinking 'okay, y'know, it wouldn't be unusual for a Traitor to bring another person in to use them as a sacrificial lamb'. That's obviously potentially what Charlotte's thinking."

Further discussing the situation, Lisa revealed that she messaged Minah after Charlotte's recruitment to share her disappointment over having not been chosen herself. She said that Minah expressed concern over selecting Lisa because if she had declined the offer, it would have led to her 'murder,' earlier than it ended up happening, as the offer was an ultimatum.

Lisa told us: "I messaged her, when I saw that she had picked Charlotte on the programme just gone. I messaged Minah and said 'oh I wished you'd picked me as a Traitor' and she said 'oh well I didn't because I thought that you might say no and then I'd have to kill you'. And I went 'well, you did that anyway'. [...] It would have been good fun."

Discussing her own strategy once she was selected as a Faithful at the start of the series, Lisa told us: "I'd gone in with the strategy that I was going to try and be the grey person, y'know, who didn't stand out too much. Who was there but not really there, who didn't come across particularly as a threat for anyone. If you're too quiet they become suspicious, but also if you're too loud they become suspicious. So it was to try and fill in that grey area between people noticing you but not noticing you too much."

She added: "You really are playing that fine balance because you don't want the Faithful to suspect you but also you don't want to stand out too much to the Traitors to get them to think you're too clever. [...] That's very, very difficult because sometimes when you're in there, if you are the grey man, and you're not fitting into any particular area, you're getting clips of conversations. [...] If you weren't in significant conversations you might miss bits of the puzzle, so you weren't getting the full picture."

The Traitors continues Wednesday and Thursday night from 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The third series' finale will then launch at 8.30pm on Friday night.